Perhaps a prolonged cold spell might push a few more winter clubs to consider the summer option?.....

SUMMERS FOR CRICKET AND HOLIDAYS AND FOR TEAMS WHO CAN`T COMPETE AND PLAY IN THAT LOW LEVEL LEAGUE FULL OF STUDENTS AND WINTER RAH RAH BOYS,

Sing a song of Yorkshire, from the Humber to the Tees
Of cricket, rugby, beer, of pudding and of cheese
I know no other county where the land is quite so fine
England's lovely county. And I'm proud to call it mine

Where shining purple heather stretches far across the moor
And the lapwing's cry above me takes the place of traffic roar
And peace comes drifting gently, there's no place I'd rather be
Than this land of hills and valleys, from the Pennines to the sea

So when I've done my roaming, and when my step grows slow
When heart and mind assure me that the time has come to go
Then let me rest in Yorkshire, for its there I want to lie
'Neath sun and wind and heather... and a gleaming Yorkshire sky

The Summer games all went ahead in that week. The game that should have been in Sheffield went ahead down the road in Chesterfield. In all the time I've been involved administering leagues in the summer we've lost one game to waterlogging.

I am also led to believe that a frozen field does not necessarily mean the game is off. If the field is flat (i.e. without rutts) then the game can be played. There is no difference to fields like this and fields in summer when sometimes they are like concrete.